Business Continuity Plan Disclosure
VCM Wealth has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur. We are providing you with this information on our business continuity plan.
Contacting Us – If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do at 610-489-3018/email (info@vcm-wealth.com), you should call our alternate numbers, 610-246-0677 or go to our web site at www.vcm-wealth.com. If you cannot access us though any of those means, you may contact our custodial firm directly:
A custodian representative at TD Ameritrade may be reached at 1-800-431-3500.
In the event of an external SBD, clients may contact TD Ameritrade directly to process limited trade-related transactions, cash disbursements, and security transfers. Instructions to TD must be in writing by fax (1-866-226-4617) or by mail to:
TD Ameritrade
P.O. Box 650567
Dallas, TX 75265
For additional information about how to request funds, please visit the “Contact TD Ameritrade” section of custodian website www.advisorclient.com or call 1-800-431-3500 for more detail on contact information and recorded instructions.
Our Business Continuity Plan – We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption and respond by safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. Our business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data backup and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternative physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.
Our clearing firm, TD Ameritrade, backs up their important records in geographically diverse areas. While every emergency situation poses unique problems based on external factors, such as time of day and the severity of the disruption, we have been advised by our clearing firm that their objective is to restore their own operations and be able to complete existing transactions and accept new transactions and payments within the same day. Your orders and requests for funds and securities could be delayed during this period.
Varying Disruptions – Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to a local site when needed and expect to recover and resume business within a 12 hour period. In a disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, we will transfer our operations to a site outside of the affected area, and recover and resume business within a 24 hour period.
In either situation, we plan to continue in business, transfer operations to our custodian firm if necessary, and notify you through our web site, www.vcm-wealth.com or our customer emergency number 610-246-0677, on how to contact us. If the significant business disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure our customer’s prompt access to their funds and securities.
For more information – If you have questions about our business continuity planning, you can contact us at 610-489-3018 or info@vcm-wealth.com.
